I came across this photo in a Guardian article, and thought it was just fantastic enough for passing along. Now, I’m sure there are many witty things to be said about it, but my creativity seems to be tapped at the moment. Thus: I present the image, for your viewing pleasure, without further comment. If you have good caption ideas for it (I’m sure there’s a clever Dead Sea/newspapers-are-dying connection to be made, for example), by all means, please have at it in the comments section.
[Photo: Creative Commons License via Inju/Flickr, some rights reserved]
Up to his neck but not drowning yet.
#1 Posted by Shii, CJR on Thu 26 Mar 2009 at 05:05 PM
Oooh, I like it. Thanks!
#2 Posted by Megan Garber, CJR on Thu 26 Mar 2009 at 05:58 PM
Mideastern Pasttime: "Oil" floating in it and gloating about it.
#3 Posted by Peter B. Wolf, CJR on Fri 27 Mar 2009 at 05:58 AM
DO YOU GET THAT CONFUSED LOST AT SEA FEELING EVERY TIME YOU READ THE NEWS?
Go for the truth and leave the propaganda behind.
Subscribe to the Columbia Journalism Review.
All the truth without the soggy nonsense.
#4 Posted by Roy Estrow, CJR on Fri 27 Mar 2009 at 08:40 AM
Um, I am too distracted by his one black foot to be creative. Anyone else? What is up with his one black foot?
#5 Posted by Laura K, CJR on Fri 27 Mar 2009 at 09:46 AM
Even out on the open sea, one still runs into impertinent clods who insist on reading over a person's shoulder....
#6 Posted by B, CJR on Fri 27 Mar 2009 at 09:57 AM
Laura K: I'm betting it's Dead Sea mud.
My caption entry: "Would you do that with an e-reader?"
(And note how Hebrew's right-to-left script flops the Latin alphabet world's print layout conventions. A bit of a mind-bend, no?)
#7 Posted by Clint Hendler, CJR on Fri 27 Mar 2009 at 01:55 PM
Oops. Upon second look, that's not Hebrew--looks like Arabic script, actually. But the left-to-right mind bend is still there.
#8 Posted by Clint Hendler, CJR on Fri 27 Mar 2009 at 02:28 PM
Is this what "up shit's creek without a paddle" looks like?
#9 Posted by paul, CJR on Fri 27 Mar 2009 at 03:19 PM
Global warming meets the death of dead tree journalism in a modern democratic Middle East.
#10 Posted by Fredrick Schwartz, CJR on Mon 30 Mar 2009 at 07:56 AM